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"She has been influencing her viewers by her serious underweight condition.

"She has not been getting better since the day she started YouTube, she's getting more and more sick each day and it's honestly like she does this bodily harm to herself and shows young girls that it's 'okay' to be suffering from a medical condition such as anorexia."

New York-based vlogger Eugenia Cooney has a million followers on YouTube (Image: Instagram)

One woman claimed her young cousin starved herself to look like Eugnia.

She said: "My little cousin lost 17lb because she wanted to look like Eugenia. She is now receiving care, she is only 12 years old."

Eugenia has defended herself against the critics.

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In a post uploaded to her vlog, she said: "Some people are saying I'm like a bad influence on girls. I just want you guys to know like I have seriously never tried to be a bad influence on YouTube or to influence anyone badly. I would never want to do that.

"I have never told anyone to try to lose weight or to try to change the way they look or to look like me."

A number of petitions to get Eugenia temporarily banned have now been started.

But although Eugenia claims she does not try to influence her followers, some who have signed the petition says her ultra-think look will influence young girls anyway.

The petition statement went on to say: "She may not be intentionally influencing her viewers, nut showing more than 50% of her body in her videos and pictures is not helping girls with Anorexia or any eating disorder."